Running for Office on Climate Change?

From schoolyard to White House

Many political careers have been started early on. Donna Sinclair a college history professor at Washington State University now running for State Legislator in the 18^th. District, came to the table via a school board election win from Washougal, WA. She is one candidate who has examined the implications that replacing fossil fuel diesel with biodiesel dramatically cuts the particulate and poison emanating from the school buses, without having to make any changes to the infrastructure required by going electric. “I don’t think that ideas around jobs, the economy and a clean environment are mutually exclusive: Climate change affects kids in the schoolyard and ideas to mitigate the damage can be taken all the way to the White House because it is one urgently needed topic that requires more than knee jerk reactions. It requires the full support of all branches where elections populate the ranks, regardless of location or technology.”

From the schoolyard to the white house, by way of state level initiatives. One of the key concepts that Europe promoted was any activity that eliminated the use of fossil fuels had to be encouraged, sometimes one gallon at a time. If that activity created a revenue stream so much the better. That is how mandatory biofuels were injected into the market and it is understood that each gallon of diesel fuel will contain up to 8% clean burning biodiesel, and that is 8% less fossil fuels pumped into the atmosphere. But you and a climate change candidate have a greater plan, just replace fossils with hydrogen. Insist on giving the dollar and cents of that change, breathe fresh air into pompous numbers, go to the election with actionable items.

In other words, and this the important message of this article, prepare a business plan for any voter to follow, the assure them that you will do your utmost, with the determination and dedication of your future office to pave the way for that climate changing blueprint to become reality.

But your job has just begun, now you need to contact any person or company who can implement the plan. For hydrogen there are the big players, Air Liquide, Air Gas and others. Then find out how to install a hydrogen supply system in your constituent’s back yard, call Walter Bredenstein founder of Gas Techno for smaller systems that are suitable for a dairy Co-Op and pump out green methanol that is a lot friendlier to the environment. The move to shift fossil fuels is leading to methanol farms: “We really are starting to see green hydrogen as the key driver for the near term as accessing the capital in Europe for green hydrogen and green methanol is extensive.”

Keep reading on the next page for how to choose your battles and allies and the conclusion.